While I'm obviously biased as I wrote iPeng, I have to agree what's been
said above.
iPeng and SqueezePad really follow somewhat different paradigms.

SqueezePad tries to be as close to the other Squeezebox UI's as possible
to make it familiar for Squeezebox users and flatten the learning curve
while my goal with iPeng is to make the long-term experience as
efficient as possible. Most iPeng users use the App every day and
typically also several times per day so I believe it pays to invest a
few minutes of learning to get quicker access to the functionality
through a flatter menu hierarchy, it's "play modes" to speed up playlist
building, direct access to all your players etc.

Also, iPeng has been around for longer than the current iteration of the
Squeezebox UI so it has some UI history of it's own that sometimes
borrows more from other iPad Apps than the Squeezebox universe.

Same on the UI appearance. SqueezePad tries to keep a clean look by
using a lot of whitespace (ok, black space) around UI elements and
accepts to show actual library content only in a very small part of the
screen while iPeng tries to free up as much space for actual library
content as possible so that it can show things like large artwork while
browsing, which in turn probably makes the overall appearance more
crammed.

It's really a question between: Do you want to stay as closely to the
familiar Squeezebox UI as possible and accept it's limitations
(SqueezePad is still performing much better than the Logi App or
SqueezePlay) or do you want to get as much as possible out of it and
accept that it might sometimes behave or look a bit differently.

Both Apps have all the functionality of the Logitech App or SqueezePlay
plus some features you don't get on any other controller.


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